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REFERENCES TO AUTHORITIES
Citation of authorities at the end of quotations should be printed thus: HOMER, _Odyssey_, ii. 15, but print HOR. _Carm._ ii. 14. 2; HOM. _Od._ iv. 272. This applies chiefly to quotations at the heads of chapters. It does not refer to frequent citations in notes, where the author’s name is usually in lower-case letters, and the title of the book sometimes printed in roman. As an example: Stubbs, _Constitutional History_, vol. ii, p. 98; or the more contracted form—Stubbs, _Const. Hist._ ii. 98, will do equally well; but, whichever style is adopted after an examination of the manuscript, it must be uniform throughout the work. References to the Bible in ordinary works to be printed thus—Exod. xxxii. 32; xxxvii. 2. (For full list of contractions see p. 41.) References to Shakespeare’s plays thus—_I Henry VI_, III. ii. 14; and so with the references to Act, scene, and line in other dramatic writings. Likewise in references to poems divided into books, cantos, and lines; e. g. Spenser, _Faerie Queene_, IV. xxvi. 35. References to MSS. or unprinted documents should be in roman. As to use of italic, see also above, p. 50.
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